Commonwealth v. Chapman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• interpreting “substantial bodily injury” as used in G. L. c. 265, § 13J[a]
• interpreting \substantial bodily injury\ as used in G. L. c. 265, § 13J[a]
• “The defendant’s contention that her acts and omissions were themselves accidents was a question for the jury”
• vagueness challenge rejected where defendant was prosecuted for intentional acts and omissions that permitted infant to be placed at risk of such injury
• jury instructions \must be construed as a whole\ and not as isolated statements [citation omitted]
• malnutrition or dehydration may cause a “substantial impairment of the physical condition” for purposes of § 13J

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Levesque
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-29· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-04-25· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Blache
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-02-08· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. LaBrie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-03-09· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Leonard
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-09-09· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Arias
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-10-30· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-05-13· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Hardy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-06-12· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-08-03· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-04-30· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Figueroa
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-02-06· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Ryan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-06-28· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-05-09· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Panagopoulos
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-01-08· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2023-09-15
• Commonwealth v. Ushon U., a juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2026-04-24

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• United States v. Batchelder
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,568×
• Commonwealth v. Welansky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-06-05· cited 283×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-03-15· cited 150×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Catalina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-03· cited 97×
• Gallant v. Worcester
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-06-04· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. McDuffee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-12-13· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Bohmer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-02-15· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Michaud
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-06-16· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Raposo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-21· cited 32×
• State v. Rhode
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1993-05-04· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Hudson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-09· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-04-17· cited 25×
• Hill v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1989-03-13· cited 23×
• Kromhout v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-12-02· cited 22×
• Grass v. Catamount Development Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-12-08· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-07-27· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Askew
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-04-06· cited 11×